Danielle - posted on 03/04/2016 ( 8 moms have responded )
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I am at my wits end. She is always pretend g to be sick. Even when I take away the television in her room, she insists on staying home. I thought my be it was because she was being picked on. Then I thought it was because her brier has autism and gets more attention. So I put her in homeschool like her brother and she lasted a month before begging me to put her back in regular school because she missed her friends and liked to learn in a classroom. So I put her back in regular school, and on her second day back, she is faking sick again. I managed to get her to go, tears streaming down her face. I am 25 weeks pregnant, high risk, and cannot physically make her go, or handle the stress she is putting on everyone in the home. Not sure what my options are. Psychologist?
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Jodi - posted on 03/04/2016
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DId you not realise YOU posted a duplicate post. How the fuck was I to know unless I go trawling through all of the posts? Your post ALSO sounds like you are allowing her to stay home.
I'm still thinking she needs counselling and clearer and more consistent consequences. And have you ever spoken to the school to see what is happening once she is there?
Sarah - posted on 03/04/2016
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Duplicate post.
Jodi - posted on 03/04/2016
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I'm sorry, but who is the parent here? She's ELEVEN. She can only refuse to go to school if you allow her to stay home!!! If she has been doing this for years, then THAT is what YOU created. You weren't 25 weeks pregnant all these years, so don't blame your pregnancy now.
I would strongly recommend you get your daughter into counselling and also step up and parent her with clear and consistent consequences, which clearly you have not had up until now. Believe me, if you have let her get away with this one for years, you are in for a hell of shock over the coming years if you don't do something about soon.